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The Relevance of History to Philosophy of Science

open access: yesTheoria, 2010
I argue for the possibility of historicized philosophy of science, and then respond to three criticisms of view: 1) history of science provides too few case examples to be useful to philosophy, 2) philosophy based on history is prone to reflexive ...
Robert HUDSON
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Philosophy, Logic, Science, History [PDF]

open access: greenMetaphilosophy, 2012
AbstractAnalytic philosophy is sometimes said to have particularly close connections to logic and to science, and no particularly interesting or close relation to its own history. It is argued here that although the connections to logic and science have been important in the development of analytic philosophy, these connections do not come close to ...
Tim Crane
openaire   +3 more sources

The importance of being heterozygote: effects of RHD-genotype-sex interaction on the physical and mental health of a non-clinical population

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Human populations, especially European, are polymorphic in the RHD gene. A significant fraction of their members carry no copy of the coding section of RHD gene, which results in their Rh-negative blood type.
Jaroslav Flegr   +5 more
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Integrating Dark Matter, Modified Gravity, and the Humanities [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science (2022), 91:A1-A5, 2022
Editorial of a special issue on dark matter & modified gravity, distributed across the journals Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Published version of the open access editorial (in SHPS) available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.08.015.
arxiv   +1 more source

Congruence in European and Asian perception of Vietnamese facial attractiveness, averageness, symmetry and sexual dimorphism

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Attractiveness is a proposed universal cue to overall biological quality. Nonetheless, local raters and raters of the same ethnicity may be more accurate in assessing the cues for attractiveness than distant and unfamiliar raters.
Ondřej Pavlovič   +2 more
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Environmental convergence in facial preferences: a cross-group comparison of Asian Vietnamese, Czech Vietnamese, and Czechs

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
It has been demonstrated that sociocultural environment has a significant impact on human behavior. This contribution focuses on differences in the perception of attractiveness of European (Czech) faces as rated by Czechs of European origin, Vietnamese ...
Ondřej Pavlovič   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Africans and Europeans differ in their facial perception of dominance and sex-typicality: a multidimensional Bayesian approach

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Biosocial impact of facial dominance and sex-typicality is well-evidenced in various human groups. It remains unclear, though, whether perceived sex-typicality and dominance can be consistently predicted from sexually dimorphic facial features across ...
Vojtěch Fiala   +4 more
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Acceptability of mandatory vaccination: a survey experiment on the effects of thresholds and justifications

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange, 2023
Mandatory vaccination mightseem like a straightforward solution for reaching a sufficient vaccine coverage during a pandemic. However, the effectiveness of mandatory vaccination is undermined if the public does not perceive such a compulsory policy as ...
Juha Ylisalo   +5 more
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Faster life history strategy manifests itself by lower age at menarche, higher sexual desire, and earlier reproduction in people with worse health

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Factors which indicate lower life expectancy also induce switching to a faster life strategy, that is, a higher investment in current reproduction at the expense of future reproduction and body maintenance.
Kateřina Sýkorová, Jaroslav Flegr
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